Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Here's a quick post on issues I was having while installing ColdFusion Builder and Flash Builder, in case anyone else runs into the same. I installed Eclipse 3.6 (Helios) and then added Flash Builder and ColdFusion Builder as plugins, which is a fine configuration. The problems I was encountering were:

ColdFusion Builder does not color any code. While that was the most obvious identifier, upon further inspection CF Builder didn't work period.

Could not register CF Builder and was never even asked! All registration links under the CF Builder Help menu were disabled (grayed out).

After reinstalling I started poking around on the web and it turns out that I had installed the wrong version of Eclipse. I was used to installing Eclispe for JEE Developers. The download link includes 2 MacOS versions, one for 32bit and one for 64bit. Both Eclipse versiosn ran on Cocoa the framework instead of Carbon, which CF Builder does not support (and seemingly neither does Flash Builder).